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Full name | Clarence Football Club | ||
Former name(s) | Bellerive Football Club | ||
Nickname(s) | Roos | ||
Club song | "Clarence are the team to beat, I sing to you!" | ||
2023 season | |||
After finals | 3rd | ||
Home-and-away season | 3rd | ||
Leading goalkicker | Bryce Alomes (36) | ||
Club details | |||
Founded | 1884 | ||
Colours | |||
Competition | Tasmanian Statewide League | ||
President | Scott Wade | ||
CEO | Patrick Merrick | ||
Coach | Peter Ryan | ||
Captain(s) | Jarrod Harper | ||
Ground(s) | Blundstone Arena (capacity: 19,500) | ||
Uniforms | |||
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Other information | |||
Official website | goroos.com.au |
The Clarence Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos (and usually referred to as simply "The Roos"), is an Australian rules football club playing in the Tasmanian State League, based in Bellerive, Tasmania. Before 1947, they existed as Bellerive Football Club. [1]
The Club play their home games at Blundstone Arena (formerly Bellerive Oval), Hobart's Test Cricket ground, they share the facilities with Tasmania's cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers.
Clarence joined the Tasmanian Football League in 1947 on a two-year probationary period from the Southern District Football Association, later being granted permanent status on 7 August 1950, and continued to participate in the league until it was disbanded in December 2000.
They then joined the Southern Football League and participated until the end of the 2008 season whereby the club opted to join the newly reformed Tasmanian State League from 2009 and have won the first two premiership titles on offer since joining the competition and only in the 2015 season missed out on the finals.
William Leitch Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL senior football)
Tassie Medallists (Best and fairest player – TSL senior football from 2009)
George Watt Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL reserves football)
V. A. Geard Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL thirds football)
D. R. Plaister Medallists (Best and fairest player – TFL fourths football)
Dolphin Medallists (Best and fairest player – NFL Shield)
Lefroy Medallists (Best and fairest player – Tasmanian team)
All-Australian team members
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Record home attendance: Bellerive Oval
Record roster match attendance: all time
Record TANFL/TFL finals attendance:
Record SFL Premier League finals attendance:
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